http://therisingstorm.net/the-savage-rose-savage-rose/ | therisingstorm.net Sun, 20 May 2012 22:08:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://therisingstorm.net/the-savage-rose-savage-rose/comment-page-1/#comment-23119 Stephen Ridley Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:43:53 +0000 http://therisingstorm.net/the-savage-rose-savage-rose/#comment-23119 Dear Jason I enjoyed your perceptive review of the first Savage Rose album. It may be their best album......many of the melodies are so beautiful they can stand alongside anyone from Abba to Zappa. McCartney, Dylan ,Wilson and Newman included. You are right to moderate the use of the word psychedelic though things do go that way on their awesome second record In The Plain. How about a review of that slightly weird sounding record (in part due to the odd engineering/mixes perhaps). To use the word "mindblowing" really sounds like a dumb silly sixties pre Rolling Stone Magazine d.j. or journo but for anyone (even enlightened teenagers today happy exploring talented 60s bands) who can "get into" the likes of the Airplane, Its a Beautiful Day, Traffic etc then In The Plain is mostly genuinely exciting. My favorite SR album is Travellin'. At points they verge on pop songs (I'm Satisfied Mr. Captain) but there's tons of awesome beauty and more than a liittle gravitas in songs like The Castle and Your Lifetimes A Fairytale. The kind of people reading this are probably open to bands new to them. Usually a newish friend may tell you about a band they love who are totally unique but when you finally listen it's big disappointment. For sure they are unique but they have no......well....talent. Admittedly Annisette's vocals can make Kate Bushe's sound plain ordinary by comparison and some folk don't get beyond it so maybe be a liitle patient. The band's fame does rest on their first eight albums so start there! A large part of their work after that is not rock and instead ventures into .......well...avant guarde classical music, ice ballets for children, Palestinian freedom songs, modern cool chill groove songs and sometimes returns to rock. That's all another thirty years of music and stories! I'm not the first person to consider them the most underrated group ever. Why that exactly should be is again another set of stories. Thanks again...... Steve. Dear Jason
I enjoyed your perceptive review of the first Savage Rose album. It may be their best album……many of the melodies are so beautiful they can stand alongside anyone from Abba to Zappa. McCartney, Dylan ,Wilson and Newman included. You are right to moderate the use of the word psychedelic though things do go that way on their awesome second record In The Plain. How about a review of that slightly weird sounding record (in part due to the odd engineering/mixes perhaps). To use the word “mindblowing” really sounds like a dumb silly sixties pre Rolling Stone Magazine d.j. or journo but for anyone (even enlightened teenagers today happy exploring talented 60s bands) who can “get into” the likes of the Airplane, Its a Beautiful Day, Traffic etc then In The Plain is mostly genuinely exciting. My favorite SR album is Travellin’. At points they verge on pop songs (I’m Satisfied Mr. Captain) but there’s tons of awesome beauty and more than a liittle gravitas in songs like The Castle and Your Lifetimes A Fairytale.
The kind of people reading this are probably open to bands new to them. Usually a newish friend may tell you about a band they love who are totally unique but when you finally listen it’s big disappointment. For sure they are unique but they have no……well….talent. Admittedly Annisette’s vocals can make Kate Bushe’s sound plain ordinary by comparison and some folk don’t get beyond it so maybe be a liitle patient.
The band’s fame does rest on their first eight albums so start there! A large part of their work after that is not rock and instead ventures into …….well…avant guarde classical music, ice ballets for children, Palestinian freedom songs, modern cool chill groove songs and sometimes returns to rock. That’s all another thirty years of music and stories!
I’m not the first person to consider them the most underrated group ever. Why that exactly should be is again another set of stories.
Thanks again…… Steve.

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